Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Dr. Ivanhoe is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in Brain Injury Medicine. She is a senior fellow in the American Leadership Forum (ALF), clinical professor in the University of Texas McGoverm Medical School and currently the director of the SPASM (Spasticity and Associated Syndromes of Movement)
program at TIRR;
Dr. Ivanhoe was director of that Brain Injury and Stroke Program and a professor in the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation until her resignation, the summer of 2019. She is an admitting physician and consultant to the Brain Injury and Stroke program at TIRR Memorial Hermann. Dr. Ivanhoe founded and served as medical director and Chief Medical Officer of Mentis NeuroRehabilitation, a residential post acute brain injury program until 2017. She has served as faculty in courses across the US and abroad, and is most known for expertise in the treatment of spasticity and its role in functional recovery, medical complications of brain injury; at times, as an advocate for healthcare access. Her clinical experience has spanned the entire spectrum of brain injury from developmental disabilities, neurosurgical ICUs, and throughout acute rehabilitation to long term follow up in the community. Her nonprofit, IF (Ivanhoe Foundation) supports endeavors that serve to improve the lives of those with brain injuries and other disabilities in the community. Dr. Ivanhoe is known for pioneering the clinical use of interventions for spasticity including Intrathecal Baclofen therapy for which she was an investigator on the studies that led to it’s FDA approval, the use of botulinum toxins and for teaching. She is published in articles and textbooks.
Dr. Ivanhoe has served on the board of directors of the International Neurotoxin Association and their educational committees, as well as the board of Mentis Neuro Health until 2017. Dr. Ivanhoe is a member of speakers’ bureaus and/or advisory boards of companies involved in the treatment of spasticity and dystonia, and other aspects of the Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome. She is recognized by US News and World Report Best Doctors and Best Doctors in Texas and has received awards from the Brain Injury Association of Texas; American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine; Baylor College of Medicine for her contributions to advocacy, teaching and education; the service award from the CNS Council of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Distinguished Clinician award by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the Brain Injury Alliance of Texas and has received the Professional Contribution and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Brain Injury Association of Texas. Most recently she was awarded “Physician of the Year 2020,” by TIRR Memorial Hermann and awarded the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching award at the UT.
